Maybe this is a better tool for structuring the discourse then it is for firmly deriving the basis of a given statement.
I’m thinking about the reports my kid gives about his football games. If the final count was 10:9 and the game was long, I ask if it were the final goal which took so much time to score; not because I expect it to be exactly so, but rather because this is the streetlight under which I start looking for the keys.
If, OTOH, it ended at 5:3, I ask what he remembers as the most interesting points. And if it ended at 9:1...
Maybe this is a better tool for structuring the discourse then it is for firmly deriving the basis of a given statement.
I’m thinking about the reports my kid gives about his football games. If the final count was 10:9 and the game was long, I ask if it were the final goal which took so much time to score; not because I expect it to be exactly so, but rather because this is the streetlight under which I start looking for the keys.
If, OTOH, it ended at 5:3, I ask what he remembers as the most interesting points. And if it ended at 9:1...